Bipartisan group of senators sounds the sequester alarm

A bipartisan group of six senators is readying the groundwork for lame duck sequester negotiations, sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying that a sequestration alternative must determined before January and calling for any bipartisan proposals to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation by November, GovExec.com reports.